What’s been designed here is a project that ensures a fossil fuel agenda, both in the literal and figurative sense.
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Department of the Interior
ONSHORE Acct,* to increase state participation and federal accountability for energy production on the federal estate.
Conduct offshore oil and natural gas lease sales to the maximum extent permitted under the 2023-2028 lease program,” with the possibility to move forward under a previously studied but unselected plan alternative.*
Develop immediately and finalize a new five-year plan, while working with Congress to reform the OCSLA by eliminating five-year plans in favor of rolling or quarterly lease sales.
Review all resource management plans finalized in the previous four years and, when necessary, select studied alternatives to restore the multi-use concept enshrined in FLPMA and to eliminate management decisions that advance the 30 by 30 agenda.
Set rents, royalty rates, and bonding requirements to no higher than what is required under the Inflation Reduction Act.*
Comply with the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 to establish a competitive leasing and development program in the Coastal Plain, an area of Alaska that was set aside by Congress specifically for future oil and gas exploration and development. It is often referred to as the “Section 1002 Area” after the section of ANILCA that excludes the area from Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s wilderness designation.*”
Conclude the programmatic review of the coal leasing program, and work with the congressional delegations and governors of Wyoming and Montana to restart the program immediately.**
Abandon withdrawals of lands from leasing in the Thompson Divide of the White River National Forest, Colorado; the 10-mile buffer around Chaco Cultural Historic National Park in New Mexico (restoring the compromise forged in the Arizona Wilderness Act*’); and the Boundary Waters area
in northern Minnesota if those withdrawals have not been completed.*° Meanwhile, revisit associated leases and permits for energy and mineral production in these areas in consultation with state elected officials.
Require regional offices to complete right-of-way and drilling permits within the average time it takes states in the region to complete them.